A surprise presidential win for Poland's conservative Karol Nawrocki signals potential clashes lie ahead with the pro-European government’s reform agenda.
I think it needs actual democracy. Grassroots power. Ground up, not top down.
Not voting in popularity contests with millions of others where corporate funded campaign financing influences everything you see and corporate funded media influences everything you hear.
See, this is why I STRONGLY believe something like Lemmy is essential for an actual Democracy to function. Of course, not the only thing, we also need a rethink of our educational systems, a complete restructuring of our priorities and principles as a species, and these are just to name a few.
But true Democracy cannot exist unless the consensus is granular, as well as educated and rational. The Forum is necessary.
But we still have a lot of rethinking to do beyond just that, otherwise we’ll be right back where we started. We can’t have a Democracy centered around anything other than its people (i.e. not fucking Capitalism).
I think it needs actual democracy. Grassroots power. Ground up, not top down.
Not voting in popularity contests with millions of others where corporate funded campaign financing influences everything you see and corporate funded media influences everything you hear.
See, this is why I STRONGLY believe something like Lemmy is essential for an actual Democracy to function. Of course, not the only thing, we also need a rethink of our educational systems, a complete restructuring of our priorities and principles as a species, and these are just to name a few.
But true Democracy cannot exist unless the consensus is granular, as well as educated and rational. The Forum is necessary.
But we still have a lot of rethinking to do beyond just that, otherwise we’ll be right back where we started. We can’t have a Democracy centered around anything other than its people (i.e. not fucking Capitalism).